this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023
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It should come as no surprise that the lemmy.ml admin team took about 2 minutes to decide to pre-emptively block threats / Meta. Their transparent and opportunistic scheme to commodify the fediverse and it's users will not be allowed to proceed.
We strongly encourage other instance administrators to do the same, given the grave threat they pose to the fediverse.
Yes, thank you, I was anxiously looking forward to this.
Thank you!
Meta will only go full on E/E/E on the fediverse, even by "accident" (like adding new features and breaking the standard). Better choke them off right from the start and build small organic communities instead.
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Excellent news. I would have moved to another instance that did block if .ml didn't block them. Thank you for this lemmy.ml
Good riddance
Very good! I sincerely hope all the others will too. If lemm.ee won't, I know where I'll be moving to ;)
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I don’t understand this logic. Don’t we want Lemmy to be more mainstream and user friendly? Preemptively blocking any mainstream attempt to connect and bring in more users just sounds slightly petulant to me. Like I get meta = shitty company but I don’t get why we shouldn’t encourage more people joining the fediverse. And getting external help in growing it. And threads was the first mainstream olive branch that showed Lemmy, Kbin, and mastodon has legitimacy worth building infrastructure to join.
Idk blocking other people categorically from connecting just seems antithetical to the idea that it should be a decentralized system free to all to join.
But I’m new here, so maybe Im mistaken on the ethos of Lemmy.
We want new users, but not any random users at any costs.
I'd rather see the community growing slowly but organically than adding a bunch of random people with a toxic Instagram logic.
We don't have to be 10s of millions to enjoy it here either.
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